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These are the stories of the American Police Veterans.

America made a promise to take care of those that have protected America.   That promise wasn't broken.  It was empty  words.   Some of those words were turned into laws, where they were ignored.   America Thinks that retired and disabled law enforcement officers are living large at the expense of the taxpayer.   Read their stories.  Then decide for yourself.   Who is paying the ultimate price for safe American communities.  
 

Mr. Secretary, They are Abandoned!

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This entry was posted on 4/8/2006 3:20 PM and is filed under Just the Facts, Disability, The Policevet.





"They must be confident that, should something happen to them in the course of their service, their Nation will not abandon them."
Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, USDOT



More than 189 police officers are assaulted every day in the U.S. (62,000 assaulted yearly)and rising (that is one out of every nine), with 21,000 injured. Many are permanently disabled.


"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
-Joseph Conrad, Chance 


















            
		    
	    	
		    
            
		    
		    
		      





						
						
 

						

							
							
						

					


					

						
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